The best recent works of fiction
Our seven choices include Zadie Smith’s first historical novel and the Booker-prize winner, about an imagined, dystopian Ireland
The story of one unhappy family told from multiple perspectives. Paul Murray is a confident, stylish writer: he convincingly evokes a teenage girl’s rage, a boy’s fear, a father’s secrets and a mother’s disappointments and grief.
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Books for young children that you can read over and over and over
Parents will enjoy these, too
Books that imagine that history took a different course
What if Hitler had won and Hillary Rodham had broken up with Bill Clinton?
What to read about America’s culture wars
Four books on controversies that helped to shape the presidential election
What to read about grief and bereavement
Six books about feelings that are both universal and unique to the person experiencing them
Books that probe the secrets of the Mossad
Seven books on Israeli intelligence agencies, which are spearheading the offensive against Hizbullah in Lebanon
An introduction to Lebanon, perhaps the next front in a wider war
Four books and a film on a pivotal Middle Eastern country